The Fessio Phenomenon
Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe By Cornelius Michael Buckley. S.J. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 379 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Lee Oser. “Fessio.” The name has become a test. The first card the reviewer lays on the table will evoke a smile or a...
Seeing the True Presence
The Eucharist Is Really Jesus: How Christ’s Body and Blood Are The Key To Everything We Believe By Joe Heschmeyer. Catholic Answers Press, 2023. Paperback, 174 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. C.S. Lewis once observed that he believed in Christianity like...
Will You Also Go Away?
True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church By Francis X. Maier. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 284 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Following the title page of Francis X. Maier’s True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror
The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
Here, Kirk references with approval MacIntryre's argument from "After Virtue" on the need for "communities of character."
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?" https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/04/russell-kirk-civilization-without-religion.html
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?"